Sean Hollister / The Verge:
DJI removes its geofence around US “No-Fly Zones”, replacing it with a warning, saying the update “aligns” with FAA rules and follows similar changes in the EU — For over a decade, you couldn’t easily fly a DJI drone over restricted areas in the United States.
Sources and docs: Meta has dismantled a system that identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach, and told content-ranking teams to stop penalizing misinfo (Casey Newton/Platformer)
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources and docs: Meta has dismantled a system that identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach, and told content-ranking teams to stop penalizing misinfo — The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news. Last week, it shut them down — I.
Huione Guarantee, a Telegram marketplace that facilitates “pig butchering” and other scams, recently launched several crypto products, including a stablecoin (Elliptic)
Elliptic:
Huione Guarantee, a Telegram marketplace that facilitates “pig butchering” and other scams, recently launched several crypto products, including a stablecoin — – Huione Guarantee is a Telegram-based marketplace serving fraudsters in South East Asia, including those responsible for so-called “pig butchering” scams.
Filing: the SEC sues Elon Musk, claiming he failed to timely disclose a major purchase of Twitter shares ahead of his takeover of the social media platform (Nicola M White/Bloomberg)
Nicola M White / Bloomberg:
Filing: the SEC sues Elon Musk, claiming he failed to timely disclose a major purchase of Twitter shares ahead of his takeover of the social media platform — (Adds details on Twitter share purchase from second paragraph.)
In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets’ copyright claims (Josh Russell/Courthouse News Service)
Josh Russell / Courthouse News Service:
In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets’ copyright claims — A coalition of news organizations led by The New York Times claim the exploitation of their online news stories …
Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed debuts iOS and Android apps; its Android app is the top Social app on Google Play in some markets, including the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed debuts iOS and Android apps; its Android app is the top Social app on Google Play in some markets, including the US — Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps. The service today runs …
Intel Capital plans to split off from its parent into a standalone fund with a new name in H2 2025; Intel Capital has invested $20B+ into over 1,800 companies (Dan Primack/Axios)
Dan Primack / Axios:
Intel Capital plans to split off from its parent into a standalone fund with a new name in H2 2025; Intel Capital has invested $20B+ into over 1,800 companies — – It was founded in 1991, and has invested more than $20 billion into over 1,800 companies.
Email: Sonos CPO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is leaving; some employees say he shares a significant amount of blame for the brand damage after the botched app revamp (Chris Welch/The Verge)
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Email: Sonos CPO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is leaving; some employees say he shares a significant amount of blame for the brand damage after the botched app revamp — A day after Sonos announced a CEO transition, the company is making more moves. Chief product officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin will also be leaving his position.
Apple joins UALink, an industry group working on a next generation AI accelerator architecture standard meant to challenge Nvidia’s dominance with NVLink (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Apple joins UALink, an industry group working on a next generation AI accelerator architecture standard meant to challenge Nvidia’s dominance with NVLink — Apple has officially gained a board seat on the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, a group of more than 65 members developing next generation AI accelerator architecture.
Quantum computing stocks rebound after a big dip that followed skeptical comments from Nvidia’s Huang; RGTI is up 40%+ today but is still down ~55% from Jan. 2 (Laura Bratton/Yahoo Finance)
Laura Bratton / Yahoo Finance:
Quantum computing stocks rebound after a big dip that followed skeptical comments from Nvidia’s Huang; RGTI is up 40%+ today but is still down ~55% from Jan. 2 — Quantum computing stocks rebounded Tuesday afternoon after a massive sell-off fueled by Big Tech CEOs expressing skepticism …
